Mel was gracious enough to have myself and my 2 boys over for a run on his new Salt Panorama Track on New Years Day. To say they were impressed would the be the understatement of the new year! What a spectacular track!. The boys had a ball and spent this morning drawing up rally cross road tracks on paper for dad to start creating!

Thanks everyone for the encouraging comments. Without many of you I would not have been inspired.

It has been a long haul (almost 2 years) and still not finished.

turboman93, on Dec 29 2009, 08:34 AM, said:

I'm so jealous I'm not over there.

Thought of you last night at my sons birthday and while "trying" some Wild Turkey". Mate- your welcome here anytime with or without the lubricant.

Yngwie, on Jan 2 2010, 05:33 PM, said:

Mel was gracious enough to have myself and my 2 boys over for a run on his new Salt Panorama Track on New Years Day. To say they were impressed would the be the understatement of the new year! What a spectacular track!. The boys had a ball and spent this morning drawing up rally cross road tracks on paper for dad to start creating!
A great track made extremely well.

Here is Yngwie and one of his sons, the other is taking my Long Nose Holden around the old BP Cutting then on to break my track record

slots, on Jan 3 2010, 08:05 AM, said:

Damn it Mel, when's the first meet??????????????

boslot, on Jan 3 2010, 11:42 AM, said:

Great work Mel, looking forward to having a run on it .
Bo

Looks like Yngwie has this track booked in for the 26th Feb (new Friday nights venture) Must finish the last coat of "F" before you inspect Bo

Some pics of the progress - shown this one before but shows elevations up the mountain the best
the work continues . . . .

1st onto the track had to be the Holden vs Ford
Then the 1st Rally car I purchased when I met up with Gazza & Co. Only used it once as the Ninco's were out classing the SCX cars.

Still a lot of spit and polish to go and another coat of "F" on the tarmac section - guess it will never end.

A big thank you to Gazza and Yngwie who have spent enormous time getting the timing set up - there were no end of problems. We now have a list of don'ts.

Ontheflipside, Great track!
One question, how do the diversions work to direct cars off the straight onto the infield? Do you have a small piece of track that can be moved like a switch?
I'm thinking of making a bit of twisty infield on my track, so I can have 2 tracks in one.

Hi Ya Mel
Well that makes my bit of 8X4 look a bit ordinary that's for sure.
I look forward to seeing the rally proxy cars on there..

Cheers Alan

I tell the better half that size does not matter

Early days but from what we have seen there could be a shake up with some cars performing well on the tarmac section and some not so well.

The tarmac section totals 27m and the dirt totals 24m but quick times are approx 13 sec on the tarmac and 20 sec on the dirt.

Plan to run the "Mountain Sprint" tomorrow night (6 laps of the Mt Panorama tarmac track) then Wed run the 10k (scaled up) Special stage then on Thursday we will run the Stage 3 Enduro to see who will be King of the Mountain

Ontheflipside, Great track!
One question, how do the diversions work to direct cars off the straight onto the infield? Do you have a small piece of track that can be moved like a switch?
I'm thinking of making a bit of twisty infield on my track, so I can have 2 tracks in one.